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  • Finest Hour

    In Memoriam Paul Addison (1943–2020)

    May 05, 2020 2 minutes
    By David Stafford

    With the death of Paul Addison, the world of Churchill studies is substantially poorer. No one claiming fully to understand Britain’s Second World War leader can fail to have read his pioneering study . Equally his biography is regarded by many, including myself, as the best

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